In case you hadn't noticed (and you might not have, given the cold weather) the UD baseball season is in full swing.

The Flyers continued a series against strong Atlantic 10 opponent Charlotte on Saturday. Charlotte is perennially one of the top teams in the A-10, but had no answer for Dayton Saturday as the Flyers picked up the win, 4-2.

Dayton was fueled by a 137-pitch, complete game performance from senior left-hander Quinn Haselhorst. Haselhorst bent but never broke during the game, and Charlotte hitters could not figure out his curveball all afternoon. Haselhorst's complete game was the second in a row for the Flyers (freshman Mike Hauschild delivered a complete game in the first game of the series Friday). Haselhorst was aided by some strong defensive play, including two outfield assists by left fielder Max Navalinski.

After Charlotte scored in the top of the first inning, Dayton came right back with two runs of its own on a two-run hit by first baseman Jonathan Castine.

The score remained 2-1 until the sixth inning when Charlotte was able to notch up another run to tie the game. Once again, Dayton

came right back to regain the lead in the bottom of the sixth on a sacrifice fly by senior catcher Scott Dunwoody. Junior Cole Tyrell added an insurance run one inning later with a solo home run that just snuck inside the left field foul-pole.

After that, it was all Haselhorst, retiring all six batters in the eighth and ninth innings.

With the win the Flyers improved to 14-10 overall and 5-0 in the A-10. After a a rocky start to the season, going 2-4, the Flyers have gotten hot, winning six of their last seven games. Dunwoody attributes the Flyers' strong play of late to a couple sources.

"We've been getting some solid pitching performances," Dunwoody said. "Our starters have been going out there and throwing a lot of innings, and we're hitting the ball real well ... a lot of times we've been getting three or four or five run innings, which certainly helps."

Head coach Tony Vittorio agreed with Dunwoody's assessment

of the pitching.

"It's awesome to get through day one and day two with complete games," Vittorio said. "Quinn has done a great job, he's a true competitor

and we expect that out of him. Our freshman pitching is what we've been really pleased with. Michael Hauschild and Chuckie Ghysels and Cameron Hobson; so we're excited about those guys."

Vittorio also said a lot of the team's recent success is due to the players' mindset.

"A lot of confidence right now, the guys believe in themselves," Vittorio said. "We have a lot of experience, players back from last year so probably the experience with the confidence our guys are playing with, we just believe we can win right now."

Charlotte is usually one of the better teams in the A-10 because it has the opportunity to get outside and start practicing earlier than most other teams because of the city's climate. Dayton does not get as much work in outdoors before the season starts, but the team gets some work in anyway.

"We actually got out quite a bit this year," Dunwoody said. "We get our work in, we have some indoor

space, but we also get outside and take some ground balls, things we need to do."

This Dayton team is never intimidated,

and that is in part due to the attitude Vittorio has instilled in his players.

"It's not Charlotte you play against, you play against yourself.

It all depends on who's on the mound and executing pitches and playing team offense," Vittorio said. "Charlotte is a good team, we've got a lot of respect for them, but it's not who you play against man you play against yourself. More importantly, we executed a game. That's why you play the game everyday."

The Flyers will travel to Rhode Island for its next set of conference games this weekend.